Question

What spiritual considerations surrounding a disaster can arise for individuals, communities, and health care providers? Explain your answer in the context of a natural or manmade disaster. How can a community health nurse assist in the spiritual care of the individual, community, self, and colleagues?

Answer 1

Disaster causes a massive destruction to properties and life.The spiritual considerations like making an intimate relationship with the Almighty to find a justice why it happened yo them or to their family as an individual. In community there are loss of holy and divine places for them to pray and let opt their feeling to find an internal peace.The healthcare provider are concerned to heal them spiritually rather than physically.

The community health nurse can assist in spiritual care in some of the following way

• Group health and spiritual education to find a hope
• Arrangement of prayers or encouraging the community to pray together wherever they are
• The co workers as well as self are severely exhausted due to a massive number of patients.Spiritual care can relieve their stress and tension and enable them to do a stress free work
• Individual can be reassured that no one is greatest than nature and almighty is the one who decides clout its existence of perishing
• The chaplain can be arranged